Sankofa Movie Analysis

The Movie Sankofa accurately depicted the slavery experience in a very accurate manner, Sankofa itself is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that translates go back and study your past. The movie depicted slavery in almost the exact way it really happened, Sankofa shows us the if African American had the true picture of slavery experience, they would truly cherish and appreciate breathe of freedom we have today. In fact, this true because this current generation has no idea, on how the slave experience was really about, a lot of people prefer to even talk about this issue because they feel its incident that happened in the past. According to the movie, if we knew the pain and the hardship our forefathers passed through, it might affect …show more content…
Second “The most fortunate slaves managed bonds people” As seen in the movie noble ali played that character he was entrusted into whipping negroes and was trusted the master, who sometimes entrust some supervisory job to him. Nunu, in fact, rejected to marry him because of the same reason. Third, “ Elderly women had special responsibilities such midwives and taking care of babies” Nunu acted as the elder women who was very passionate about living, she took the role of the midwives when Kunta who was heavily pregnant, died as result of the maltreatment of the master, she took it upon herself to deliver a dead woman and went to the extent of breastfeeding and backing the baby, telling Ali the baby was special. Fourth “ they took pleasure…delight of dance and music..in their personal space” shango and shola were seen several times in the movie cuddling, telling each other how much they loved each other with shola providing